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The Independent Medical Examination in Psychiatry

Provides lawyers with sound guidance on determining whether a psychiatric IME can stand up to judicial scrutiny. Provides professionals who are called upon to conduct assessments the guidance they need to perform top-quality assessments and write first-class reports.
by Joseph Berger (Author)
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
Publication Language: English
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$270.00
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Published: January 01, 2002
ISBN/ISSN: 9780433438595
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada

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Provides lawyers with sound guidance on determining whether a psychiatric IME can stand up to judicial scrutiny. Provides professionals who are called upon to conduct assessments, the guidance they need to perform top-quality assessments and write first-class reports.

Key chapters cover:

  • The Current Mental State Examination - the importance of this examination, what observations should be made about a patient, how and why this part of an IME may be used in court
  • The Report - the essential components of the written report
  • Controversial diagnoses - the difficulties that can arise when examining patients who claim to have controversial conditions such as Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Dissociative Identity Disorder
  • Making a DSM diagnosis - problem areas that can arise when making diagnoses using the DSM and which DSM Axes are and are not useful


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Joseph Berger

Joseph Berger

Dr. Joseph Berger is a consulting psychiatrist in practice in Toronto. He graduated in Medicine from the University of London, England, with honours, and trained in Psychiatry in the United States. He is certified as a specialist in Psychiatry by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and is an elected Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has been an Examiner in Psychiatry for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology for twenty five years, has taught as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and is the author of many published papers on different aspects of Diagnosis and Independent Psychiatric Assessments. Dr. Berger has performed more than 900 Independent Psychiatric Assessments. He was the first psychiatrist to present data on Independent Psychiatric Assessments at the Annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, and he has made a number of presentations on issues related to psychiatric disability to other medical groups, to seminars for lawyers, and to workers in the field of Disability Insurance. Dr. Berger is a past Chairman of the Toronto district of the Ontario Medical Association and is the current President of the Ontario branch of the American Psychiatric Association.

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Table of contents

Preface
Chapter 1: What is an IME?
Chapter 2: Why do we Need independent Assessments?
Chapter 3: The Components of the Psychiatric IME
Chapter 4: The Psychiatric Interview
Chapter 5: The Content of the Interview
Chapter 6: The Current Mental State Examination
Chapter 7: The Report
Chapter 8: The Report-Part 2
Chapter 9: Introduction to Diagnosis
Chapter 10: Diagnosis in the Psychiatric IME
Chapter 11: Making a DSM Diagnosis
Chapter 12: Controversial Diagnoses
Chapter 13: The Problem of Malingering
Chapter 14: Recent Court Decisions and the Psychiatric IME
Chapter 15: Conclusion and Afterthoughts
Index
 

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